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In this sweeping record, Jennifer Michael Hecht celebrates uncertainty as an engine of creative imagination and as an alternative to the politics and intellectual potential issues of certainty. In the same way belief has its own history boasting people whose unique expressions of faith forever changed the globe, doubt has a captivating story and traditions with its own saints, martyrs, and sages. Hecht demonstrates the fantastic doubters ponder the same issues as the fantastic believers. She celebrates such heroes of uncertainty as Confucius, Socrates, Jesus, Wang Ch ung, Hypatia, Maimonides, Galileo, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Emily Dickinson, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Margaret Sanger people who drove record ahead by challenging the power and conventional intelligence of their own time and heritage.